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Detect fake emails on your list with 99% accuracy. Enter an email address or upload your list (100 contacts minimum) and verify email authenticity of your subscribers. Get a snapshot of your email list's health so that you can improve campaigns and protect your sender reputation.
Prevent fake email signups. Get full access to the 99% accurate fake email checker now!
Create a free account and get 100 credits monthly for use with our email list validation tool. Plus, get these free benefits:
- Validate email addresses in bulk
- Real-time email verification API to prevent fake email signups automatically
- Verify+ - The only email address checker that detects disabled Yahoo/AOL/Verizon emails
- 99% accuracy - money-back guaranteed
- 24/7 customer support
- No contracts; no obligations
The No. 1 email validation service for 350,000+ clients
How the fake email checker works
ZeroBounce can detect fake emails through its in-depth email list validation process. Here’s how we verify email authenticity:
- Syntax checks — Does your email use the correct format or contain typos? If yes, the email address is fake.
- DNS record/SMTP checks — Even if the format is legit, you need to know if the mailbox is real. We validate email addresses with record checks to ensure that they’re real and configured correctly.
- Spam trap checks — Our fake email checker also checks for known spam signatures, allowing you to detect and avoid problematic emails.
- Verify+ from ZeroBounce — While we detect fake emails, we’ll also look for ‘disabled’ email accounts. These are common with Yahoo and AOL domains and will lead to a bounce, just like fake email addresses.
- Further investigation — If the fake email checker doesn’t detect any problems, we’ll pursue an additional investigation to check for suppression lists, catch-alls, disposable domains, and toxic domains. All of these will hurt your email marketing efforts.
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How to use the fake email checker in your email marketing
Regular email list validation
Any business that sends emails should upload its database to an email quality checker at least quarterly. This quick step will detect fake emails, lower bounce rates, and improve campaign performance.
Prevent fake email signups on your website
The best way to protect your list and sender reputation is to detect fake emails immediately. We make it easy to add our API to your forms so that you can block fake data and get real subscribers.
Email address checker on the go
Picked up a possible new email lead from LinkedIn or elsewhere? Throw it into the fake email checker and get a result in seconds. It’s effortless to detect fake emails, so why risk the bounce?
Why use our fake email checker?
Prevent fake email signups automatically
If you have a signup form, you’re going to get fake email signups. If your list is filled with fake emails, you can’t convert.
Our fake email checker is easily added to any website signup form to detect fake emails, correct typos, and provide valid email data.
Improve your visibility
Any company that sends emails has an online reputation. The more you bounce emails, rack up spam complaints, etc., the worse yours is.
The ZeroBounce email validation service is the essential email marketing tool for ensuring your company’s reputation remains pristine.
Protect sender reputation
Fake email signups are more than a nuisance. They lead to high bounce rates and hurt your email sender reputation.
Email list validation detects fake emails and removes them from your list so that you can send campaigns without fear.
Grow your email sales
A large email list doesn’t matter if half of them are fake contacts. You can only sell with email if your subscribers are real.
Add an email address checker to your email marketing routine to stop fake emails from hurting your revenue.
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FAQs
You can detect fake emails by using an email list validation tool or real-time email verification. These tools check if the email address exists and is configured to receive email messages.
You can prevent fake email signups by adding a real-time email verification API to your website signup forms. Whenever a visitor enters their email address, the API calls the verification tool, performs a check, and accepts or rejects the email address based on the result.
You can validate email addresses by using an email list validation tool like ZeroBounce. You can submit a single email address or upload a file that contains all of the contacts on your email list. After submitting your contacts to the fake email checker, it will automatically verify and validate each subscriber and provide you with a clean list.
You can protect your email sender reputation with the following practices: • Detect fake emails with email list validation • Maintain a low email bounce rate (2% or lower) • Authenticate your emails • Provide a 1-click unsubscribe method • Keep a low spam complaint rate • Remove inactive subscribers